What seemed like a Shawn Langdon runaway has quickly become a toss-up for the $150,000 prize. Langdon was on a torrid early-season streak, winning three races in a row at one point, but that hot streak has now shifted to his Kalitta Motorsports teammate, reigning world champion Doug Kalitta.<\/p>\n
In a scene eerily similar to last year when Kalitta got hot mid-season and rode that to a second world title in three years, the veteran again appears to be peaking perfectly.<\/p>\n
Kalitta won back-to-back races in Sonoma and Seattle, pulling to within a mere five points of his teammate. The duo has been dominant all year \u2013 especially when factoring in the Mission #2Fast2Tasty Challenge \u2013 and it could literally come down to the final run in Indy, which would make for quite the scenario at The Big Go.<\/p>\n
FUNNY CAR<\/strong><\/p>\n Without question, Funny Car will provide the wildest finish to crown the $150,000 regular season champion in Indy. A whopping four drivers are within just 64 points \u2013 or just more than two rounds in Indy \u2013 of leader Ron Capps, who like Langdon, has watched a comfortable points lead wither over the past two races.<\/p>\n He\u2019s just 37 points ahead of Jack Beckman, who has been remarkably consistent in recent months, and 42 ahead of J.R. Todd, who rolled to the win in Seattle.<\/p>\n Jordan Vandergriff, who dominated in Sonoma, is only 54 points back, while four-time champ Matt Hagan trails Capps by 64 points. It\u2019s going to make for a thrilling two-race stretch, as any of the five is capable of winning in Brainerd and Indy. Should all five stay close heading to Indy, we could be able to witness one of those classic Indy finishes on raceday.<\/p>\n PRO STOCK<\/strong><\/p>\n This remains the Dallas Glenn and Greg Anderson show and it may remain a coin flip to the end. Anderson jumped back on top with his Seattle victory, but it\u2019s just an eight-point difference between Glenn, the reigning regular season and overall world champion, and the six-time champ.<\/p>\n Greg Stanfield has surged to third and is 158 points back, but this likely remains a two-horse race at Indy.<\/p>\n Being that it\u2019s basically a tie between the pair of KB Titan Racing teammates, this could come down to whoever goes further on raceday on Labor Day. Anderson has always run well at The Big Go, but Glenn, who is looking for his first Indy win, surely loves the sound of a second straight regular season title.<\/p>\n PRO STOCK MOTORCYCLE<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s been a minute since we\u2019ve last seen the full Pro Stock Motorcycle category, which doesn\u2019t return until Indy. Richard Gadson won in June in Norwalk, giving the reigning world champ a healthy 83-point lead over teammate Gaige Herrera.<\/p>\n That will be hard to overcome in one race, putting Gadson in the driver\u2019s seat to win this championship for the first time. Angie and Matt Smith are 111 and 136 points back, respectively, and have enjoyed great seasons, but Gadson remains the clear favorite to take the lead into the Countdown to the Championship playoffs.<\/p>\n For more information on NHRA, including the 2026 schedule, visit\u00a0www.NHRA.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n This story was originally published on August 12, 2026. The post Race for Regular Season Title in NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series Down to Two Events<\/a> first appeared on Drag Illustrated<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just two races remain in the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series regular season, making it the perfect time to check out the points race for the regular season championship during NHRA\u2019s 75th anniversary campaign. With nearly $400,000 overall on the line to the drivers who finish first in Top Fuel, Funny Car, Pro Stock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racepages.com\/Videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Drag](\"https:\/\/dragillustrated.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DI_flat_red-e1711481551475.png\")
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